Is the left already going there? I figured they eventually would, but this is backbench, desperation-type stuff in early August. On top of it all, the whole narrative is dodgy.

Romney was not involved in the day-to-day business at Bain Capital after 1999, as he was working on the upcoming 2002 Winter Olympics. This man’s plant closed in 2001 — overlap, but not damning evidence. Plus, the man’s wife died in 2006, five years after the plant closed. His wife didn’t tell him he was sick? Also peculiar. I hate to attack this man, an obvious mark, when the super PAC is responsible for manipulating him and his tragedy. This ad certainly crosses a line — one can disagree with Romney without accusing him of being a disinterested ivory-tower death dealer. That’s the kind of unreasonable dirt that could definitely backfire.